Cooper Center School

Location: (District #2) - Section 17, west side of Douglas, north of D Avenue (not right at the intersection).

The 1880 Kalamazoo County history says: "As early as 1836 a school was organized at Cooper Centre. Its sessions were held in a log house of very primitive construction, and presided over by Miss Adeline Hicks, now Mrs. George Hart, who had about 20 pupils." At some point it was replaced by a brick building which was demolished in the fall of 1878 and replaced by a new one on the same site. It appears to have been replaced at least once more.